Railway freight-car.



L. E. EVENS.

RAILWAY FREIGHT GAR.

APPLICATION FILED 00w. 1a, 1910.

Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

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' Lad-E. EVENS,' or WArEn oo, Iowa,-

BAII 'WAY I FREIGHT-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30,1912

Application filed October 13, 1910. Serial No. 586,905. a g a To allwhom it may concern. 1

Be it known that I, Lno .E. Evans, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, haveinvented-certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Freight-Cars, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates ,to improvements in maximum number of such objects,with're-' sulting economy in haulage expense to' the common carrier.This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which: n I

4 Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway freight car, with one sideremoved in order to better disclose the inner arrangement of myimprovements therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail broken view of a partof said car and my improvements, taken in plan. Fig. 3 is a similarview, but showing a modification of my improved movable supportingmeans. Fig. 4 is a broken detail in elevation, showing the-slideway forthe movable table. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the upper part of afreight car, showing the suspended table therein. Fig. 6 isa sideelevation of one of the A-shaped trestles used as an auxiliary supportto said table.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views.

- In ordinary box-cars it is possible to transport but such a number ofautomobiles as may be stowed therein upon their floors, one deep. It ismy intent to provide mow able means for supporting a second tier of theautomobiles or other objects to be trans ported above the lower tier.This I am able to accomplish in the following way:

The numeral 6 designates an auxiliary floor, hereinafter called thetable, which lies above the floor 15 of the car 1, and is paralleltherewith, and secured on longitudinal beams 7. The ends ofthis table6,:have recesses 16 to permit the entrance of the guiderails t,'whichlatter are fixed vertically to beams 3 at the ends of the car. Whendesired, a variation may be adopted for the table shown, as will appearin Fig. 3, where the supporting-means consists of longitudinalchannel-bars, their concavities upwardly, connectedby cross-bars 18, theends of such channel-bars being grooved to admit the guide-rails 4. Thechannel-bars 17 are more particularly intended to support automo-'biles, the bars being spaced apart the right distance to receive thewheel-tiresfand having their concavities ofsufficient width to receivetires of different diameters.

I.The numerals 8 and l designate rotary shafts, the same lyinglongitudinally .along said car, the shaft 8 being located within the carand in its upper angle of junction of the roofo w'ith the side along theleft-hand side, while the shaft 1 1 is located immediately below thebottom of the car, near its lefthand side. The shaft 14 is supported byhangers 31, while the upper shaft 8 is supported by the hangers 30 aswell as the ends .of the car. The ends of the shaft 8 which projectoutwardly from the ends 2 of the on, which carry the sprocket-chain 10,the lower end of the latter being carried by a sprocket-wheel (notshown) on a projectrng stud-shaft, the latter also carrying a gearwheel11. "The adjacent end of'the shaft 14:

.car, have sprocket-wheels 9 mounted there'- means shown permits ofgreater stiffness and less strain in lifting the load. Each of D thepinions-13 is provided with a removable crank-handle 12, which, when notin use may be detached and stowed inside the car. In the upper corner orangle of the lnslde of the car on right-hand side is located alongitudinal fixed shaft 26. At different places cables 5 are arrangedin said car with oneend of each secured to said fixed shaft 26. Thesecables are then carried downward and under the movable table 6, or

under the movable channel-bars 1.7 as the case may be, then upwardly andsecured to the rotary shaft 8 so as to be wound thereupon. find itadvisable in practice, to mount small grooved pulleys 27 and 28 at.theangles of the table 6 to carry the cables with a minimum ofFriction, and alsopreventingfluneven strains on" the table.

The guide-rails 4 are provided with a plurality ofpin-holes 24,therealong, adapted to receive pins 23. f

The numeral 20 designates a trestle, whose members are pivoted at theirconverging uppersends on a, transverse rod and are adapted to beadjustably spaced apart and connected'by means of a movable arm or.lever provided witha number of ratchet-teeth which engage a stop-pin 22removably.

1 The ear is provided with doors 32, preferably having beveled edges tofit beveled casings in order to always insure a close fit,

while the width of the door-opening-is sufficientf to permit oftheintroduction of an adtomobile of any-length therethrough lengthwise.t

The method of loadin my improved car is the following: The ta le 6,or-the channeled bars 17 as the case may be, havingbeen lowered uponthe. floor 15 of the car, the automobiles 34 are laced in the carresting upon said table, or in case the channel bars 17 are used, withtheir wheel tires resting in the concavi'ties of the bars. By means ofthe theends of the table, while the trestle 20 may mechanism previouslydescribed, the. table is l then elevated in the-"car. with its load,s'u'fficiently topermit of working space thereunder-,andj the pins23'are used to support be placed under the table to support the mid-(116 part thereof; The automobiles 33 are then placed directly upon thefloor 15 of the car.v Then the table is lowered a proper disa. tance,the pins 23 inserted in the holes 24 of the, guide-rails 4, and thetrestle 20. placed under the middle of the table with its transverse rod35'. extending'unde'rthe table 'from side-to side. The trestle-thussuppofls the [middle ,of the table,"removes strain from the theircharacter, it is to be understood that ends of the car, the weight,of'the load on said table thus being transferred 'directly to the floorof. the-car, The table, or bars 17 when secured asindicated also bracesthe ends of the c'ar,' hel 'ing to stiflen its structure. The useoft 'smvent-ion-permits of fully" oading the car to its capacity, withresulting economy in-transportationi 1 The devices shown beingillustrative in variations. other than those shown are ters Patent,is: 1. In combination, a freighteer, a mov- Oct, 1910.

included in the scope and within the principles of my invention.

- Having described-my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letable table therein having longitudinal channels on itsupper surface, and means. for raising and lowering said tableaway fromor to the floor ofthe car.

p 2. In combination, a freight-car, a movable support therein providedwith ri id -longitudinal channeled bars, and meansor adjusting theposition of sad movablesuport. f

'3. In combination, a freight-car a movable table therein, verticaluideways for said table, cables secured to t e upper part of the car andpassed under said table, and a' rotary shaft, said cables bein woundabout said shaft to raise said table a ong said guideways.

. 4., In' combination; a freight-car, a verticall -movable sup ortin-frame therein,

vertical guideways or the ends of said supporting-means, cables fixed atone end and carried under said supporting-means anti-. friction meansbetween said table and said cables, and means for winding up said cablesA to elevate said supporting-frame along said guideways.

5. In combination, a freight-car, a niov- .guideways, aiid removableadjustable supports 'forthe table adapted to be located thereinunder. vSigned at Wa'terloo,Iowa this 8th day of I LEO E'. EVENS. Witnesses:

Gno. G. .KENNEDY,

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'able table therein having longitudinal chan-

